The Effect of Mergers and Acquisitions on Employee Retention and Engagement

How do you retain and engage needed employees to function at desired levels of performance when an organization has announced it is merging, downsizing, restructuring, closing or going through a similar major transition? This symposium presents insights based on research and experience from empirical, conceptual, and practitioner perspectives.
Increasingly, executives take bold steps like acquisitions, downsizings, and closings to accelerate attainment of financial objectives. For example, Ford is closing thirty locations and eliminating thousands of jobs, yet needs surviving employees to be productive and contribute to a hoped-for corporate turnaround. While “the only constant is change,” there is a limit to the disruptiveness that a workforce can handle. And, it is the key performers who tend to abandon companies in transition first. Drawing on research findings and practitioner insights, this symposium shows how to retain and engage desired employees during difficult times.
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